What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
by Sohaila Abdulali
Buy on Amazon"Drawing on her own experience, her work with hundreds of survivors as the head of a rape crisis center in Boston, and three decades of grappling with rape as a feminist intellectual and writer, Abdulali tackles some of our thorniest questions about rape, articulating the confounding way we account for who gets raped and why--and asking how we want to raise the next generation. In interviews with survivors from around the world we hear moving personal accounts of hard-earned strength, humor, and wisdom that collectively tell the larger story of what rape means and how healing can occur."--Dust jacket flap.
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"This is a powerful and necessary book for the #MeToo era. In the last couple of years the media has focused on women’s testimonies of violation, harassment, molestation and abuse. This book goes deeper into the long aftermath of abuse, with its multi-layered and complex examination of mental. physical, social and spiritual trauma caused by the actions and choices of perpetrators. It re-centers the victim within the narrative, and recenters her too within a society which is geared towards disbelieving her, excusing the perpetrator and minimising his actions. This book is not just a personal testimony —it looks at many victims’ experiences and as such forms an incredibly moving tribute to the power of survivors to overcome what has been done to us."
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